Short-term fasting in glioma patients: analysis of diet diaries and metabolic parameters of the ERGO2 trial.

Purpose: The prospective, randomized ERGO2 trial investigated the effect of calorie-restricted ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting (KD-IF) on re-irradiation for recurrent brain tumors. The study did not meet its primary endpoint of improved progression-free survival in comparison to standard diet (SD). We here report the results of the quality of life/neurocognition and a detailed analysis of the diet diaries.

Bank funding and the recent political development in Italy: What about redenomination risk?

The political situation in Italy had and still has implications for sovereign credit and redenomination risk. The current political environment is discussed from an economic and legal perspective focusing strongly on the funding situation of Italian banks. Some empirical evidence is reported.

ERGO2: A Prospective, Randomized Trial of Calorie-Restricted Ketogenic Diet and Fasting in Addition to Reirradiation for Malignant Glioma.

Purpose: ERGO2 is the first randomized clinical trial on a calorically restricted ketogenic diet (KD) and intermittent fasting (KD-IF) in addition to reirradiation for recurrent malignant gliomas.

Methods And Materials: Fifty patients were randomized 1:1 to reirradiation combined with either a calorically unrestricted diet or KD-IF. The KD-IF schedule included 3 days of KD (21-23 kcal/kg/d), followed by 3 days of fasting and again 3 days of KD.

Effects of ethanol on cytokine production after surgery in a murine model of gram-negative pneumonia.

Background: Both alcohol abuse and surgery have been shown to impair immune function. The frequency of postoperative infectious complications is 2- to 5-fold increased in long-term alcoholic patients, leading to prolonged hospital stay. Following surgery, an increase in interleukin (IL)-6 has been shown to be associated with increased tissue injury and interleukin 1-(IL-10) is known to represent an anti-inflammatory signal.

[Studies on simian viruses as possible contaminants of inactivated virus vaccines. I. Direct and serologic detection of simian adenovirus SV20 (author's transl)].

In the Federal Republic of Germany inactivated vaccines against poliomyelitis and measles are still produced in monkey kidney cell cultures which may be contaminated by simian viruses. One of these viruses is the oncogenic adenovirus SV20. A control of monkey sera from the institute's monkey house showed a high incidence of hemagglutination-inhibiting and neutralizing antibodies against this virus (table 1).